Gérson

Gérson de Oliveira Nunes, generally known as Gérson [Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒɛʁsõ]], (born 11 January 1941 in Niterói), nickname Canhotinha de ouro (literally: Golden left foot) is an association footballer. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamego, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense. He also won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico with Brazil. Gérson was born and spent his childhood in the city of Niterói, just to the eastern side of Guanabara Bay from Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of the former Rio de Janeiro State. In school he was nicknamed papagaio (parrot), a nickname he kept throughout his life and which many of his fellow footballers used when addressing him. Both his father and uncle were...